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Since my post about the DES breast cancer trial that gets underway in Boston this week, I’ve been asked how you would know if you were exposed to DES. DES, or diethylstilbestrol, is a synthetic estrogen that was prescribed to millions of pregnant women between 1938 and 1971 to prevent miscarriages and premature labor, and other complications. […]

When Patricia Royall was 28-years-old she was rushed to the emergency room with massive bleeding. The diagnosis: cervical cancer. “The doctor who treated me asked if I was a DES daughter and I told him I didn’t know,” says Patricia. “He told me I had some reproductive abnormalities that he had seen in other DES […]

Diane Atwood

For more than 20 years, Diane was the health reporter on WCSH 6. Before that, a radiation therapist at Maine Medical Center and after, Manager of Marketing/PR at Mercy Hospital. She now hosts and produces the Catching Health podcast and writes the award-winning blog Catching Health with Diane Atwood.